Introduction to remote sensing / Введение в дистанционное зондирование

Readers of earlier editions will notice immediately that among the changes for this new, fifth edition, the most significant is the addition of a coauthor—a change that will benefit readers by the contribution of additional expertise and of another perspective on the subject matter.
During the interval that has elapsed since the release of the fourth edition, the pace of changes within the field of remote sensing and within the geospatial realm in general has continued to escalate at a pace that in earlier decades would have seemed unimaginable, even for committed visionaries. Likewise, few could have anticipated the development of the analytical tools and techniques available for examination of remotely sensed data, the widespread availability of remotely sensed imagery, or the multiplicity of remote sensing’s uses throughout society. These developments alone present a challenge for any text on this subject. <...>